The film has been causing quite the stir since debuting at Sundance in January (before further key festival stops at Cannes, Venice and Toronto). Which, as it turns out, is a rather interesting topic in itself.įollowing positive notices for his post-Potter turn in The Woman in Black, Kill Your Darlings sees him play gay Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. 'It's more a gradual realisation through my teen years, 'OK, people are interested, very interested.' It just makes you very firm about what you want to do and keeping your private life private, as much as you can.'Īlthough he has spoken openly about a past struggle with the bottle (he gave up alcohol in 2010), these days Radcliffe - who divides his time between New York and London - would rather focus solely on the work, if you don't mind. I don't think we felt a great deal of pressure playing real people.

But there was never a moment when I thought, 'Oh shit'.

There are moments when you're a teenager, when you become aware that the press is interested in your life. 'I don't feel like I've lost my privacy, I have tonnes of privacy,' he says, with an indifferent shrug.